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Route Saltery Bay – Earls Cove
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Saturday · shoulder

8 sailings

Every departure, what it usually does, and the hour you would have had to arrive.

Easiest sailings before 10:35, after 12:55
Hardest stretch 10:35–12:55
06:30 room most days 100% — 5 08:20 room most days 100% — 5 10:35 expect to wait 20% 09:01 5 12:55 expect to wait 20% — 5 15:40 room most days 80% — 5 18:00 room most days 100% — 5 20:05 room most days 100% — 5 22:00 room most days 100% — 5
had room filled up waited one waited two+ *no exact match, so the search was widened — open a sailing to see how Saturday · shoulder · 40 comparable sailings
Marine forecast · ECCC ⚠ Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · September · 09 · Sunday · 13 · 04 · 30 · 202609130430 · Sunday September 13, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Saturday · 12 · 21 · 202609122130 · Saturday September 12, 2026 at 21:30 PDT Wind northwest 15 to 20 knots except southeast 5 to 15 over southern sections overnight. Wind diminishing to light early Sunday morning except southwest 15 near Qualicum Beach Sunday late in the day. No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 31 days forecast for strong winds since 2026-08-12. Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Sunday. · issued 27 days ago · cancellation counts are FerryCast's own
At Earls Cove · ECCC Partly cloudy · low 10 °C Gibsons · Tonight · issued 27 days ago

FerryCast

Saturday · shoulder

Leaving from

Scheduled departure

18:00 departed

5 comparable sailings

0% ran out of room
5had space

How the 5 went

  • Space the whole time 5 · 100%
  • Ran out of room 0 · 0%
  • Cancelled 0 · 0%

From terminal camera frames, which count vehicles waiting outside the terminal.

Not enough exact matches, so the search was widened to all seasons; then widened to +/-60 min; then widened to include days outside a long weekend, which behave differently.

34 sailing(s) had no usable record and are excluded.

See the 5 dates
DateTimeOutcomeLeft behindPeak
2026-10-03 18:00 made it no empty
2026-09-26 18:00 made it no empty
2026-09-19 18:00 made it no empty
2026-09-05 18:00 made it no empty
2026-08-29 18:00 made it no heavy

The outcome is about the vessel — whether it ran out of room, which the board can see and no camera can. “Left behind” is about the approach road, which only a camera residual or somebody in the line can see; “no one has said” means neither did, which is not the same as no. Peak is how full the compound got; older sailings show a vehicle count, and a “+” there means the queue ran past the edge of the camera frame.

When did the queue build?

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NW 15–20 kt No cancellations in 31 days of strong winds Warning

Forecast

On the water

⚠ Strait of Georgia - south of Nanaimo · Strong wind warning · warning · Issued · 2026 · September · 09 · Sunday · 13 · 04 · 30 · 202609130430 · Sunday September 13, 2026 at 04:30 UTC · Saturday · 12 · 21 · 202609122130 · Saturday September 12, 2026 at 21:30 PDT

Wind NW 15–20 kt

Wind northwest 15 to 20 knots except southeast 5 to 15 over southern sections overnight. Wind diminishing to light early Sunday morning except southwest 15 near Qualicum Beach Sunday late in the day.

What it means for sailings

No sailing on this route was cancelled on the 31 days forecast for strong winds since 2026-08-12.

Issued 27 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Strait of Georgia - north of Nanaimo · Tonight and Sunday. · cancellation history is FerryCast's own

At Earls Cove

Weather Partly cloudy
Low 10 °C

Clearing. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light late this evening. Low 10.

Issued 27 days ago · Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gibsons · Tonight

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